Daphne de Heer Boeken

Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience. As victims are made into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing a media hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man he's after is a genius of terror--and he's after fame. The killer has the whole city by its strings--and he'll stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen

In Lucia, Lucia voel je de warmte van Lucia's Italiaanse familie. Je ziet de bedrijvigheid in het New York van de jaren vijftig voor je. Bovenal leef je mee met een vrouw die gelooft dat ze in een wereld vol kansen en beloftes es kan bereiken. Lucia Sartori is de enige dochter in een grote Italiaanse familie en de oogappel van haar vader. Het is haar droom om in het New York van na de oorlog carri te maken in de mode. Ze is echter verloofd met haar jeugdliefde Dante, en zal na haar huwelijk moeten stoppen met werken. Maar Lucia is vastbesloten haar droom te verwezenlijken en verbreekt de verloving, tot grote verbijstering van haar familie. Als ze kort daarna ook nog eens valt voor de flamboyante John Talbot, is vooral haar vader daar niet blij mee. Maar opnieuw kiest zij voor haar eigen geluk - en slaat alle waarschuwingen in de wind. Dit keer maakt ze een keuze met verregaande gevolgen…

The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know that Walter is a member of a spy ring and gives shelter to escaped German POWs. But she's tired of telling him jokes he doesn't understand—it's time for a divorce. Along comes Carl Webster, the Hot Kid of the Marshals Service. He's looking for Jurgen Schrenk. Carl's pretty sure Walter's involved with keeping Schrenk hidden so he gets to know Honey, hoping she'll lead him to Walter. Honey likes the hot kid marshal and doesn't much care that he's married. But all Carl wants is to get Jurgen without getting shot. Next, Carl meets Vera Mezwa, the Ukrainian head of the spy ring, and her lover Bohdan, with a sly way of killing. And then there's Otto—the Waffen-SS major who runs away with a nice Jewish girl. It's Elmore Leonard's world—gritty, funny, and full of surprises.